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ABC in Australia is the opposite of objectivity, considering they take over a month to issue retractions on false reporting. I've reported dozens of issues with
by 0xy 6y ago
ABC in Australia is the opposite of objectivity, considering they take over a month to issue retractions on false reporting. I've reported dozens of issues with false reporting in a broad range of news outlets, and ABC is nearly the worst.
ABC corrects mistakes in a month on a good day (worst case 2.5 months).
Contrasted with the private sector, Fairfax and News Corp both issued retractions to my complaints in a timely fashion, at 3 days for Fairfax and 15 minutes(!) for News Corp.
ABC simply doesn't care about journalism, why else would they have such lazy policies that ensure incorrect information is distributed as widely as possible?
- square_usual 6y agoWait, I feel like I have to ask: what do you do that requires contacting newspapers to issue retractions so often?
- renewiltord 6y agoDon't know about him but I used to do it at a time when I felt obsessed with making information correct. It was a bit compulsive. But on the bright side, that's how I knew Bloomberg News was bullshit and that despite HN's frothy comments about how they always knew SMCI was backdooring chips I just grabbed some long options on the cheap and partied it up.
- 0xy 6y agoI used to care about news media, now I'd prefer that corporate media die due to the massive damage they've caused to society and lives. They lie so blatantly that it's like they don't care that you know they're lying. ABC is actually worse, despite being propped up by government money. It's stunning how you can manage to be worse than corporate news media. I no longer consume media other than for business and tech news.